Satya Nadella talks about the future of Xbox and multiplatform. Wants to publish on Sony and Nintendo!
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Look at Activision Blizzard King revenue, profit and MAU. That now will count as MS.
With them MS becomes the top grossing publisher in console, maybe in PC too, and in mobile they jump to top 3 or so. In the overall gaming (mobile+console+pc) top grossing companies ranking MS becomes top 3, pretty close to Sony and Tencent.
That is assuming they don't remove CoD and other top AB games from PS and that GP doesn't highly decrease their revenue.
That's a crazy amount of projecting he's doing right now.
Platform - Satya Nadella talks about the future of Xbox and multiplatform: "We are very happy with what's going on in gaming"
https://twistedvoxel.com/microsoft-confirms-plans-to-release-xbox-first-party-games-on-playstation/www.neogaf.com
I get it, but they've paid out a premium for that revenue, profit, MAU for years in advance. It's not impressive when (to quote a former president): you didn't build that, somebody else made that happen. There has to be some reason why pairing up ABK with MS creates new opportunities. Switching the corporate ownership alone doesn't create profitable growth for ABK or MS.
Amazon easily has the money to buy Sony/Playstation. But instead of acquiring a massive entity, they've done a bunch of disparate initiatives, testing the waters. Because if there's a strategic reason for Amazon to be a player in videogames, it'll come through building and growing their own platform.
Especially with the risks of franchises burning out or other market factors.
I mean a gaming busy could wipe out all the potential.
Another clip just surfaced 
Xbox fanboys: "he's only talking about CoD!!!"
Xbox fanboys: "he's only talking about CoD!!!"
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Couldn't compete against Sony and Nintendo, so they moved away to PC, mobile and specially subscriptions to see if they were more lucky there. MS wasn't able to grow organically and they have a ton of money, so they went to grow via acquisitions.
Amazon can't buy Sony/Playstation because they don't want to sell. But I think they may be the biggest retailer of the world for retail game, and I think that in the long term Luna can be successful (not market leader) without needing to buy publishers.
Another clip here from Reforge of Satya overtly saying about publishing on PlayStation and Nintendo... Before he even mentions Xbox.
Yes, as he is reporting that GOW R and Zelda are coming to Xbox
I wonder how long Resetera and folks like Jez are going to pretend like this isn't happening.
Look no further than the replies to that tweet for the narrative.
"Umm splerrrg how is that different from now splerrrg? They already release on all platforms with ABK/Minecraft!"
It's clear that this is a new "strategy" read: forced pivot from Microsoft, but the frogs boiling alive in Xboxland can't tell because they've been gaslit by Philnocchio Sphincter for years.
it's funny how the same people who dismiss this as just rumors are the first ones to instantly believe any negative rumor that comes out about PlayStation.
Another clip just surfaced
Xbox fanboys: "he's only talking about CoD!!!"
Wow, much more compelling.
At the very least he makes it sound as if all ABK games will come to PlayStation and Switch, it then Hi-Fi Rush and Sea of Thieves are MGS and Zenimax respectively.
Yeah, thts it! It's a done deal. Thts their future and you know what since they acquired COD, Blizzard and have Mojang Minecraft and all tht it just makes sense and they can prosper that way.